CVE-2000-1134: Caldera Openlinux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple shell programs on various Unix systems, including (1) tcsh, (2) csh, (3) sh, and (4) bash, follow symlinks when processing << redirects (aka here-documents or in-here documents), which allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: any version
• Caldera Openlinux Edesktop: version 2.4 only
• Caldera Openlinux Eserver: version 2.3 only
• Conectiva Linux: version 4.0 only; version 4.0es only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only
• HP HP-Ux: version 11.11 only
• Immunix Immunix: version 6.2 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only
• Red Hat Linux: version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.2e only
• Suse Suse Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2001-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.